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Well I, for one, think it's great that if I want to get a ride at a fair price in the year 2026 I have to engage in a bunch of technological sleight of hand to Uno reverse card the technological sleight of hand being done on me by the provider of the ride.
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9:10 PM: Check Uber. Ride is $22.
9:12 PM: Text friends back. Re-open app. Ride is $38.
9:14 PM: Refresh map twice. Ride jumps to $54.
Uber Screen: "Fares are higher due to increased demand."
Rider: Opens iPhone Settings and turns off Precise Location for Uber. Drops the pickup pin two blocks off the main street and walks to that corner. Force closes Uber and opens Lyft for 2 minutes.
9:17 PM...
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For every one of these we're subjected to dozens of instances of the far more ridiculous trope where a 105lb female engages in hand to hand combat with a 225lb man and isn't immediately snapped in half.
the trinity syndrome: a film trope where a female character spends her life mastering her skills, is portrayed as exceptionally capable, only for “the chosen one” to be some guy
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> "Most compelling vision of progressive politics"
> Takes place in a fictional universe where society is completely dependent on technology that violates all known laws of physics.
Yeah, that tracks I suppose.
Jean-Luc Picard remains the single most compelling vision of progressive politics I am familiar with — secular, rational, compassionate, egalitarian; a believer in progress & abundance but also duty, hard work, and a constant battle for self-improvement and improving the world.
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This meme would be pure cringe if it came from some random boomer on Facebook.
Now consider that it's actually being posted by a PhD professor of economics
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Between my garage and basement I've got probably 20K worth of stuff sitting there collecting dust that I could/should sell, but I just can't stomach dealing with lowballing retards. There are no words for how intensely I hate having to deal with these people.
I recently got hit up by the God of facebook marketplace lowballers while selling a laptop
He messaged me saying "What do you think about free?"
"? Free"
"Like what if you gave it to me for free, and I didn't pay you anything"
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On my listing (for something I could get $700 for if I tried): Price $500 FIRM. The first person who shows up on my doorstep with $500 cash walks away with this item. Do not contact me if you're not willing to pay exactly $500 for this.
4 seconds later, inbox full of shit like: How does $200 sound? And I'll need you to hold it until I get paid next week.
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The neat part about making your "first principle" opposing Trump, regardless of the underlying circumstances, is that Trump now has the same degree of control over YOUR mind that he has over his his most rabid sycophants who believe everything he says unquestioningly.
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If you vote Democrat because you genuinely like their leftist agenda, you are my enemy, but at least in a way I can respect to some degree.
If you vote Democrat because you're some squishy "centrist" gullible enough to believe that they are genuinely interested in lowering gas prices after several decades of doing everything they can to raise them, you're not even worthy of the term "enemy". You are lower than the leftist. I can't even consider you sentient. You are an NPC.
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Replace "housing" with literally anything else and you'll see how retarded this complaint is.
Yeah, people looking to buy housing would like housing to get less expensive to buy. Just like people looking to buy a car would like cars to get less expensive, or people looking to buy food would like food to get less expensive. This is pretty basic human nature we're taking about here.
They're not "rooting against your house," whatever the fuck that means.
Young people are openly cheering for a housing crash now.
When a whole generation roots against your house, something is broken.
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If you're a net consumer of housing, which most of us are, you're out of your mind for cheering on continued housing price inflation.
"YES! Our formerly 300K house is now worth 500K! That's 67% appreciation! I'm a real estate genius! We're rich!"
- Yeah cool man, here's your 67% higher property tax bill and 67% higher insurance premium
"Wait, what?"
- Oh yeah, and that 500K house you were hoping to move into someday also appreciated 67% and now will cost you 835K
"Ummm.... please stop"
- Hey I'm not done kicking you in the balls. The taxes, insurance premiums and every single other expense that comes along with that now 835K house also went up in proportion with its "value". Looks like you're staying in the ol' "starter home" for a while
"Oh yeah, smart guy? I'm just gonna rent"
- Oh you'll love this then. Guess how much rent has gone up?
"Fuuuuckkk"
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You cannot parody the thought process of libs in Portland (or Minneapolis, or Seattle, or New York, or San Francisco, or...). It is simply not possible.
This is exactly what they believe. They genuinely do think the solution to everything is to "lib harder"
I have a feeling libs in Portland are going to turn it around any minute now, keep trying libs, Utopia is just around the corner, lib harder, you’ve almost got it.
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That the rules governing play in a MLB game cover 103 pages, but nowhere in there is a "swing" objectively defined, therefore the umpires call swing/no swing based on vibes alone, is one of those things that sounds too absurd to possibly be true, but apparently it is.
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Giving WWII troops free copies of The Great Gatsby was a genius tactical move.
Sgt: Men, I just received orders to charge that machine gun nest. Many of us won't make it. But at least we'll have something to do other than reading that awful book
Troops: OORAH SARGE LETS GO!
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AirBnB, Uber/Lyft, Doordash, all of these gig economy/"sharing" apps were fine when they were part time side hustles for normal people. As soon as the usual suspects realized you could grind out a meager living via this stuff the race to the bottom commenced and here we are.
Hotels have amenities. And some slezebag isn't charging you $40 to turn on the hot tub. AirBnB hosts started off great, but became total slum lords.
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Fascism, in its most extreme form: The government controls everything and the undesirables are sent to a death camp
Socialism, in its most extreme form: The government controls everything and the undesirables are sent to a death camp
The fact that these philosophies have the exact same endpoint, and therefore cannot be the "opposite" of each other, and in fact have far more in common that not, is something they really don't like you noticing.
Promoting one of the most retarded rightwing memes only happens if you're engaging in inexcusable bad faith or have had your brain baked by hyperpartisan politics or lack a commitment to truth-seeking.
Here's what Hitler did once he was in power: He busted up unions, privatized or divested from certain industries (e.g., big commercial banks, utilities, heavy manufacturing, mining, shipbuilding, some public works, steel, mass transport, railway subsidiary companies, ship lines, a lot of state-owned property), didn't remove private property protections, dismantled social welfare programs, outlawed all (actual) socialist parties and organizations, and rounded up and executed people on the left (before he did the same to Jews).
Hitler's involvement in the economy was consistent with the principles of fascism: The means of production were not seized, but the party maintained a more direct role in some regulatory aspects. Hitler argued that both social-economic hierarchies and inequalities were good for the country. How socialist of him!
Combining the terms “national” and “socialism” was briefly popular across Europe in the 20s, but these movements tended to be interested in creating “social solidarity” based not on class, but on race or ethnicity or nationality. “Socialism” in this context bears no relationship to the term in its present one.
I'll add: “But the German Nazis had 'socialist' in their name” is the same level of genius argument as “North Korea and East Germany were democracies because they had 'democrat' in their names.”
Ladies and gentlemen... your complete opposite of fascism:
teapawt.org/ACPMain/status/2114188…
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Schools should do promotion/relegation like Euro soccer leagues. After every term, top 10% of students move up, bottom 10% down. Top tier looks like a college campus, kids have plenty of autonomy, etc. Bottom tier is basically prison. 3-4 levels in between.
Would fix a lot.
School logic:
Every child has a right to an education. The disruptive child is preventing twenty-nine others from receiving one.
We must avoid fixing this situation at all costs because every child has a right to an education.
Make it make sense.
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Fun little 9 hole par 31 executive course I play a few times a week is currently installing cart paths on every hole for no apparent reason. Just dawned on me that after rain they typically have a day or two of no carts (aka paradise), and now those days will be cart path only
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My version of failing the breakfast test is that I simply cannot imagine replying to a post on here then immediately blocking the poster. Bitchmade level over 9000.
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I've never, not once, blocked anyone on here due to a difference of opinion, no matter how retarded they may be.
I'll block obvious bots, AI slop accounts, etc., but never some random libtard. I want to know what my enemy is thinking. I want to spar with those who disagree. That's like the entire reason for this place, is it not?
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3rd world cope.
The only reason you losers think you stand a chance is because you've been watching the US military work under cucked rules of engagement for decades.
Bukele is built different. His forces would go in HOT. Barbecue and the boys gonna get vaporized.
It will be the worst decision ever made in history because it will be a suicide mission. Anybody who says otherwise doesn’t know how funded and armed they are and the 2-3 million gang members basically fighting a 2-million-man military.
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